Nearly two decades into India's phenomenal growth as an international center for high technology, the industry has a problem: It's running out of workers. There may be a lot of potential students, but as few as 100,000 are actually ready to join the job world, experts say.

A push to make HIV tests as routine as a test for high blood pressure provoked a backlash here Monday from opponents who say AIDS' lingering stigma makes the risk of disclosure too great, especially when many patients still can't get access to treatment.

As competition grows fiercer in the global outsourcing industry, Infosys Technologies perhaps the best-known rajah of business outsourcing in India sits at a critical crossroads in its 25-year history.

The enigmatic Melinda Gates could be considered the anti-Angelina Jolie in her approach. Gates by all accounts an active partner in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is, as a Fort Worth, paper recently declared, "the most powerful woman you know next to nothing about."

Twenty-five years ago, seven young middle-class friends from the western town of Pune quit their jobs to chase a dream: to build a global software company in a country with few computer-users. Now, Infosys Technologies is India's most admired company and is the country's best-known brand in the global market.

The Bush administration's plan to sell nuclear technology to India for the first time in three decades is under scrutiny from lawmakers on Capitol Hill and critics who say the deal will increase the risk that dangerous materials will spread.

For millions of consumers, it's worth paying a premium to buy baked goods made from flour ground on stone as it has been for thousands of years. But we have some bad news: Most flour sold in the USA as "stone-ground" probably never rubbed up against a piece of stone.